School caning in South Korea (illustrated) (with video clips)A look at this highly successful Asian country where CP was alive and well until very recently.

Timeline: Eric A. Wildman Chronology spanning 60 years on a remarkable character who made headlines with his pro-CP campaigns and appears to have lived on the proceeds of supplying punishment canes to schools and institutions. With links to over 20 press items and several previously undiscovered pictures, and extracts from two of his publications.

Stretching Forward to Learn A first-person account of caning at a UK boys' school in the 1960s.

Corporal punishment: the Friends Reunited evidence What do the entries in Friends Reunited tell us about corporal punishment in UK schools in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s? Includes a "Top Fifty CP Schools" feature based on the number of mentions of CP for each school.

Voluntary Corporal Punishment Reduces Suspension Rates by Tim YanceyStudy of an experiment at a high school in Georgia, USA, where paddling was reintroduced, for minor infractions, but purely as an option freely chosen by the student instead of detention or in-school suspension. The program was successful.

The cane and the tawse in Scottish schools The implements used to punish Scotland's students in both recent and more distant times, and some case studies. (illustrated)

Birching in the Isle of Man 1945 to 1976 (illustrated) (with video clip)Overview of the post-war use of judicial CP in this independent British offshore island.

Judicial Caning in Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei (illustrated)Comprehensive survey explaining everything you ever wanted to know about the court-ordered canings in these three Commonwealth countries in south-east Asia.

The Canadian Prison Strap In three parts: official views and opinions, recipients' descriptions, and full details of the two different methods used, illustrated with pictures of the various equipment used and of the strap itself.

Corporal punishment in the British Army (illustrated)Official and less official flogging, caning and spanking down to the present era.

Caning in the Singapore armed forces (illustrated)Singapore is one of few countries today where formal CP is an official part of the disciplinary regime.

Caning, birching and strapping in UK reformatories How it used to be in Approved Schools and other British youth institutions: regulations, theory and practice, with links to key documents.

The Court Lees Approved School Affair Overview, with links to numerous press extracts, of the 1967 Gibbens inquiry into excessive canings at this UK boys' reformatory. The inquiry led to its immediate closure. A photograph, reproduced here, of a boy's bruised backside was one of the key pieces of evidence. (illustrated)

Injustice at Court Lees A riposte to the Gibbens conclusions from the staff point of view.

Spank While you Sell -- supplementary page 1 (illustrated) (with video clips)An addendum to the above, with 12 further images.

The Spanking Machine: A Resilient Myth in Popular Culture (illustrated)Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian whipping contraption, as imagined (or in some cases actually built) by 24 different designers.

The Canadian Regulation School Strap: How the strap was adopted, dispensed and ultimately banned, and why it is gone forever. Corporal punishment policy, practice, procedure, regulation, and world, judicial and parental CP influences by Harold A. Hoff

This is gradually being developed into an overview of the CP situation, past and present, for each country. There are many external and internal links to detailed corporal punishment information, including legal, procedural or practical aspects, from official documents or from reliable published reports.

An offshoot of this section is the Present-day online school handbooks pages, organised alphabetically by country and, for the USA, by State. All these schools announce that they use corporal punishment and give varying amounts of detail. There are now about 1,800 of these handbook links, covering Australia (1), Bahamas (2), Barbados (7), Ghana (8), Grenada (1), Kenya (1), Malaysia (10), Nigeria (3), Northern Mariana Islands (2), Pakistan (2), Philippines (1), Singapore (106), South Africa (4), South Korea (1), Tanzania (1), Zambia (2), Zimbabwe (4) and the USA (about 1,600).

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To browse for material on corporal punishment in a particular country. start by looking for that country on the Country files pages and also in The Archive.

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